Uber and Deliveroo discounts to lure young people in UK to get Covid jab

Companies will offer credit and price reductions in government push to boost vaccination rates

Cheap taxi rides and discounts from the biggest takeaway companies are to be deployed by the government in a desperate effort to boost Covid vaccination rates among the young, amid growing legal and political pressure on Boris Johnson over the use of vaccine passports.

With figures inside the cabinet concerned about the plans already in place to enforce vaccine passports in some settings, the government’s focus has turned to using incentives to drive up vaccination rates over the summer to head off another Covid wave as offices, schools and universities reopen.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3C5NgPQ